A Serpent's Tale
Chapter 312: Reaching for the Soul

Chapter 312: Reaching for the Soul

With somewhat hesitant movement, I moved my hands over to clasp the sides of Asty’s head, so that I could perform... Whatever it was that needed to be done to reawaken her.

To be honest, I wasn’t sure what the hell I was supposed to do here, I’d never done anything like this before, and I had no idea what I was doing either.

There was even a potential for me to just straight up kill Asty myself because I fucked up.

And that terrified me.

I don’t know if I could live with myself if I was the one that ended her life like that. Trying to save her.

Not to mention this is the Soul we’re talking about here, something that is strong yet extremely fragile to outside influences.

I didn’t want to risk it by using the power of my Bloodline to forcefully awaken her, I might put too much pressure on her and cause her soul to shatter.

It may not have broken before when I was attacking that evil spirit, but I think that was because it was shielding her at that time.

That might not be true, but I wasn’t about to put her life in danger for it, even if it’s in danger regardless of what I do.

Still, I wanted to take the least dangerous path, which involved me using my rather untapped potential with my Soul.

Honestly, I wish I didn’t have to resort to using either method, and would rather just have Asty wake up on her own, but based on what Morrigan said, and my own intuition, I doubt that she would’ve awoken of her own accord.

And even if Ash stayed by her side, I doubt that would be of any help either, as I think that she’s far too deep within herself to be able to hear any of us.

And so, that means I have to do this with my own Soul, as using my Bloodline may be the more violent option, which I’d rather not do.

I have no confidence in my skill with either, but I have more faith in my control over the Soul.

This isn’t entirely baseless either. I have a reason to believe in this. And that reason is my father.

He brought me into this world using his power to fuck over the curse on my mother, even if only a little and for a short amount of time.

But what I was sure of, was the fact that my father gifted me the race of Succubus for a reason, that, or it was just what I was born with.

Either way, I feel that I will have better odds at this because demons are more naturally attuned to souls, and Succubi are slightly more attuned that others, except for a few others and those that deal specifically with Souls.

’Enough stalling, I need to fucking do something now, or never.’

Shaking my head, taking a deep breath as I closed my eyes and actually began to focus and try... Something.

I genuinely had no idea what I was doing or what I should be doing, so just decided to poke around inside of Asty with some tendrils that I conjured from my soul.

They came out of my hands and entered into Asty’s body, straight into her head first.

Spreading them throughout her body, I couldn’t detect anything with my Mana.

’No... I’m looking for the wrong thing here. Not Mana, but her Soul. I need to change what exactly it is that I’m searching for.’

With that in mind, I decided to open my eyes and use [Divine Eyes] to look for any signs of Asty’s soul within her body.

It was extremely messy, but I slowly started to filter everything out until all I could see was what I thought to be the soul tendrils that I had invaded her with.

And when I looked back over to Ash, I could see her, not in her fleshy mortal form, but I was looking at her like I was within that space deep within myself. That space where the two great ancients were residing.

I assume that’s what they are anyways given their immense size at least, which is still unfathomable even now.

But that was now the lens in which I was viewing the world. So, I pulled the soul tendrils back from within Asty back into myself.

[Ding!]

[You have learned the Skill [Astral Soul Gazing: LvL. 1]!]

’The hell? Whatever, I don’t have time for interruptions right now. Besides, I’m already doing it. Why’d I even get this as a skill? No! No time for questions, stop getting distracted!’

"Traytora? Are you alright? You’re sweating something awfully fierce." I heard Ash call out to me in worry.

I had closed my eyes and shook my head to straighten out my thoughts, and had been so focused on trying to achieve my goal that I hadn’t realised that I was getting tired.

"I’m fine. Just..." I took a deep and heavy breath, exhaustion clearly taking hold of me. "Never done anything like this before and don’t quite know what I’m doing. But I know that I’m getting there, just need to keep trying."

"Are you sure it’s a good idea for you to keep on going though? You seem more tired than usual. Your eyes look like they’re drooping and about to fall out and your face is also rather pale compared to your natural complexion."

I reached up to caress my face and found that she was right. And the moment that I noticed this, my exhaustion doubled to the point where I nearly fell over.

My [SP] was only at fifty percent, and I doubt it recovered fully when I went unconscious earlier, meaning that I still have yet to get any form of proper rest since I set out to search for Ash.

"I’ll be fine..." I declared as I rubbed my tired eyes. "Just need to keep trying as I said. I’m close to figuring it out after all."

"Okay... If you say so." With that, Ash stopped prying into my wellbeing.

I was of course lying when I said that I would be fine, as I would probably go into a deep sleep myself after this was over.

But regardless, I closed my eyes once again and took a deep breath to prepare for what I was about to do next.

To be honest, it was a rather stupid idea, and it might even kill the both of us in the process, but I had to do it anyways.

I had to try, for her, for them, and for myself. If I didn’t do this, then I don’t what I’d do with myself afterwards.

I opened my eyes once again as they shimmered with a sparkling ethereal golden glow, and I was once again seeing things from a soul perspective once again.

Looking down at Asty, or more accurately her body, I couldn’t see the outline of her soul. I literally couldn’t see her at all.

All I saw when I looked at her physical body was just some dark shadowy mist thing, which kind of reminds me of that weird subspace with my soul.

As for what the rest of the world looked like... The [Hell Fire] looked like nothing had changed and anything else looked like it was made of the exact opposite to what made up the rest of our Souls, which was some weird white mist.

Ash’s and my soul both had coloured outlines which depicted our bodies like a sketch, and it would move depending on where you were looking from, with the gaps being filled with a black mist.

And all other things were made from a white mist, but Asty had no sketch like colours covering her body, it was just a pitch black mist, almost as if her soul wasn’t here anymore.

I wasn’t sure what to do here so I decided to cup her head, bringing it up to my face and cradling her body as I kissed her forehead.

And my reason for doing this was to maybe try and send a portion of my soul deep into the recesses of her body, or soul container, if that’s what this was. I assume that’s what this is, as I would guess that a corpse wouldn’t be made from a black mist.

This was why I kissed Asty’s forehead, to make the transition between bodies smoother. It was a gentle kiss filled with warmth, love and a desire to fix things.

Now that I had a connection point, I began to pour my actual soul into Asty’s body instead of just mere tendrils, that way I would actually be able to look deep within her psyche.

I started searching inside of her cocoon, which was just within the black mist, my vision transferring from my real eyes over to a pair of makeshift eyes that I made on the part of my soul that I had extended into her.

And I could still clearly see out into the real world, still using the same vision and seeing both Ash’s soul inhabiting her body, but now also my own body as well.

It was honestly quite a surreal sight to see.

But shaking the head of this small part of my soul I focused and went back to accomplishing the task at hand, finding Asty’s Soul.

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